Ticket-holder.



G. L. BRUSH.

TIGKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION IILBD NOV. 10, 1906.

912,804. Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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Gummy CHARLES L. BRUSH, OF BOURNE, OREGON.

TICKE T-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed November 10, 1906. Serial No. 342,865.

T 0 all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that 1, Cinemas L. Bnusn, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Bourne, in the county of Baker and State of Oregon,have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket Holders, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to ticket holders primarily designed for thereception of street car and like tickets, the object of the inventionbeing to provide a holder wherein a desired number of tickets may bestored and from which the tickets may be conveniently extracted, one byone, for use, a further object being to furnish a hoider of simple andinexpensive construction which affords increased convenience in theoperations of inserting and removing the tlCKGtS and read justing thetickets in the event that they should from any cause choke or bindwithin the holder.

In the accompanying drawing,Figure 1 is a perspective View of a ticketholder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal front to rearsection thereof. big. 3 is a horizontal cross section.

The holder comprises an oblon rectangular box or casing constructed ofsheet metal or other suitable material and of suflicient size to form achamber whose width and length slightly exceed the tickets to be stored.'As shown, the box or casing embodies a front wall 1, side walls and topand bottom walls 3 and 4, forming a receiving chamber 5, together with adoor 6 adapted to close the 0 en rear end of the chamber, said doorbeing ninged at its lower end to the bot tom wall 4, as indicated at 7,and provided at its upper end with spring catches 8 to interlockwithprojections 9 on the walls 2, whereby the door is adapted to beheldclosed.

The top wall 3 1s provided in its rear edge with a slotor recess 10forming an inlet or insertion opening for the introduction of thetickets into the chamber 5, while the front edge of the bottom wall 4 iscut away to form an outlet 11 for the discharge of the tickets. Thetickets 12 are adapted to be pressed against the front wall 1 by aspring 13 carried by the door 6 and the opening 11 is of sufficient sizeonly to permit of the outward passage of the forward ticket, or the onelyin immediately in contact with the front wall, while the insertion oening 10 is preferably of lar er size to enab e a number of tickets tobe simultaneously inserted into the chamber 5. A recess 14 is formed inthe lower end of the wall 1 for the insertion of the thumb or forefingerto engage and extract the outer ticket.

The spring 13 is in the form of a spring metal plate correspondingnearly in width to the width of the tickets and is suitably fixed at itsupper end to the cover 6 below the inlot 10 and then curves downwardlyand forwardly, whereby sufficient space for the free insertion of thetickets is afforded, while the lower or free end of the spring isbrought to bear with sufficient pressure on the tickets to hold themfirmly in position.

By the structure described the tickets may be conveniently inserted andextracted, and increased convenience is afforded by adapting-the deviceto permit of the extraction of but a single ticket at a time whileallowing the maximum number to be stored to be inserted in oneoperation, if desired. It is not necessary to open the door 6 to insertthe tickets, but'it ail'ords a ready means of access to the chamber 5 inthe event that the tickets should from any cause hang or bind thereinand it becomes necessary to readjust the same or bend the spring to varyits pressure. It will be observed that the insertion opening 6 exposesthe upper free end of the door, so that the latter may be grasped andopened with greater convenience and facility.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

A ticket holder comprising a side wall, a bottom wall and a top wall,the topwall and the bottom wall being each cut away to form an inlet andan outlet opening, said inlet and outlet opening being arrangeddiagonally with respect to each other, said side wall having a recess atone end which cooperates with said outlet opening, a hinged cover forthe casing having one end of a spring plate se cured thereto so as toaline with the inlet opening, said plate having one portion curvedmidway of its length for the passage of the tickets from the inletopening and the other portion of the plate being approximately straightso as to form a seat for the tickets, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. BRUSH.

Witnesses WM. WIEGAND, O. F. KEAR.

